Visual Designer (San Francisco or Dublin)
Location: IE, , Dublin
Employment type: Full-time

Company profile:
Intercom (#URL_cb674f93cbcd215a3a0a57a8615a565545949eead8adbbc73307c26d6a6af81b#) is a simple, personal messaging service for businesses and their customers. It provides a single, integrated platform for the whole company to use for support, marketing, product, sales communication and more.We’re on a mission to make web and mobile business personal. We believe that the future of customer communication requires not increasingly complex, impersonal point solutions, but rather a simple, seamless platform that applies innovations found in consumer services like Facebook and WhatsApp.Founded in late 2011, Intercom has raised over $30 million in venture capital and is backed by leading investors, The Social+Capital Partnership and Bessemer Venture Partners. Intercom has been adopted by thousands of businesses, including Heroku, Hootsuite, Rackspace, Yahoo! and Perfect Audience. Our customers love the product: #URL_18cc302f4e0f1dac521853b2a6ae109ebbe44c6130d31eb0413535ba71e2f42f#We like big thinkers with small egos who believe in our goal to build a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. Our vision is to fundamentally change forever how Internet businesses and their customers communicate.

Job description:
About the role (this position is in Dublin, or San Francisco with frequent travel to Dublin)Our growing Product Design team needs a Visual Designer to own the visual design of our products, to create, manage and update our design pattern library, and work with engineering to ensure the library is executed correctly and Intercom looks and feels like a world class product. Intercom is a design led company and an empowering place for designers to work.The Visual Designer:Own the visual design of the Intercom product.Ensure Intercom is a world class example of an app built on a visual design pattern library.Create and iterate the visual design patterns for web and mobile apps including layouts, grids, colour, typography, animation.Design and manage all assets and details.Work with engineering to implement the patterns in the library.Optional if interested: Create and iterate the visual design of our brand and our marketing materials.About IntercomIntercom (#URL_cb674f93cbcd215a3a0a57a8615a565545949eead8adbbc73307c26d6a6af81b#) is a simple, personal messaging service for businesses and their customers. It provides a single, integrated platform for the whole company to use for support, marketing, product, sales communication and more.We’re on a mission to make web and mobile business personal. We believe that the future of customer communication requires not increasingly complex, impersonal point solutions, but rather a simple, seamless platform that applies innovations found in consumer services like Facebook and WhatsApp.Founded in late 2011, Intercom has raised over $30 million in venture capital and is backed by leading investors, The Social+Capital Partnership and Bessemer Venture Partners. Intercom has been adopted by thousands of businesses, including Heroku, Hootsuite, Rackspace, Yahoo! and Perfect Audience. Our customers love the product: #URL_18cc302f4e0f1dac521853b2a6ae109ebbe44c6130d31eb0413535ba71e2f42f#We like big thinkers with small egos who believe in our goal to build a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. Our vision is to fundamentally change forever how Internet businesses and their customers communicate.

Requirements:
Multiple years experience doing a similar role at another technology company.Excellent understanding of the principles of visual design, from the graphic design of the last century, through Gestalt principles, to modern interactive and animated visuals.Excellent systems thinker with the ability to design and implement standard consistent patterns across a complex suite of apps.Strong understanding of how your work is built by engineering including HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Ability to code your own visual design work is a huge plus.Strong interest in modern visual design within technology products and staying up to date with latest trends e.g. iOS7, and new powerful ways to communicate information e.g. card based design.

Benefits:
Competitive Salary.Equity in a fast growing start-up.The opportunity to work with and learn from a phenomenal team of engineers (ex-Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook).Free breakfast, lunch &amp; dinner every day.Public transport paid for.Healthcare.